By MAMAMIA TEAM
Remember when the best part of attending a birthday party as a kid was the all-you-can eat fairy bread and winning pass the parcel? Those days are over.
Celebrities have taken celebrating their offspring’s birthdays to an over-the-top art-form. And also Pinterest? We’re blaming you. Here are 7 signs your kid’s party may be too much.
1. You have a 6-tiered cake and even that’s not enough.
Tori Spelling is the queen of overboard at her kids parties, this monstrosity cake wasn’t enough to feed the guests so cupcakes and cake-pops and 170 different other kinds of snacks were also provided.
2. It’s a black tie event… in Paris.
Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon chose Paris as the location to celebrate their twins, Morrocan and Monroe, first birthday. Kids parties are usually messy but the new parents opted for a formal black tie affair, because: MONEY.
3. Forget pizza, what kids really want to eat is fine cuisine.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes reportedly shelled out $100,000 on Suri’s 2nd birthday party, $45,000 of that went to Austrian chef extraordinaire Wolfgang Puck for the catering. What kid doesn’t like Gugelhupf or Apfelstrudel?
4. It costs more than a down payment on a house.
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Taylor Armstrong reportedly dropped $60,000 on her 4-year-old daughter’s birthday celebration. Her reasoning for such expense? At the time she said: “I don’t think people tune into Real Housewives of Beverly Hills to watch Pin the Tail on the Donkey.”
5. It’s a themed, costumed affair but the guest of honour can’t even talk yet.
Yes, that’s Tori Spelling again. The family threw a “Mad Hattie” birthday party for daughter Hattie’s first birthday (geddit?). You also can watch the video where Hattie looks super entralled here.
6. Conversely, you can’t decide on a theme so you just have one of everything.
Gwen Stefani and husband Gavin Rossdale spent $15,000 on son Kingston’s 4th birthday. To help entertain the guests there was a bouncy castle, three birds, a face painter, a balloon artist, and roaming super hero characters. Hey, you only turn four once.
7. You need to rush your house renovations.
“We’re doing a giant renovation on the exterior of our home,” Cougar Town’s Busy Phillips said. “Part of it is adding a big, flat front yard that will be hedged in and will – hopefully – be beautiful. I’ve told my contractors that it has to be done by [Birdie’s 3rd] birthday because I’ve promised her a beautiful outdoor party.”
So, no Pin the Tail on the Donkey then?
What over the top kids parties have you been to?
Top Comments
Hmmm...do you think this has something to do with "mummy guilt"? Mums who go back to work thinking they have to overspend on their children to prove their love? Not saying there's anything wrong with that. Just a thought.
I can't see the point of going overboard for a childs first birthday, not like they can remember it. We had an "OMG we survived the first year" bbq instead lol. I threw a huge b'day party for my son's 4th birthday as he had started kindy by then, and it was the first b'day he would remember. Since then every 2nd year has been a fancy party. Last two years have been sleepovers, first time he's ever lived close enough to people to have a sleep over, they play wii and xbox all night and stay up late. perfect for 10,11,12 year old boys, and no stress for me. Big birthday next year 12, last year of primary school, having a themed party, Mexican, with a piñata and Mexican food etc. After that not sure. Think 13 will be an overseas trip, and then just what ever he wants for the next few till we hit the big ones, 16, 18 and 21. (shudder)
You're kidding right? "...13 will be an overseas trip..." - I'd be shuddering too at the expectations he'll have for 16, 18 and 21. Then, what will he have to look forward to at 22?
Hopefully by the time he's 22 he'll be graduating university and taking his mother on an overseas trip! He loves to travel already at 11, so why shouldn't I treat him after surving the horror that is primary school and give him something special before starting the hard slog that is high school.
Sounds spoilt to me, but that's just me. I still don't understand why kids expect a party at 18 AND 21 - I get that 18 is more significant legally but why not replace the 21st with an 18th instead of having both? 21 has no significant meaning these days, might as well have a 23rd.